Postoperative infection rate defines the number of inpatients in a hospital being infected post surgery. Normally two to three days after the clinical surgery is considered as the postoperative period. The postoperative infection rate by hospital defines the quality of treatment and medical service being provided in the hospital. The below postoperative infection rate calculator works based on the number of infections and number of surgical operations.
Postoperative infection rate defines the number of inpatients in a hospital being infected post surgery. Normally two to three days after the clinical surgery is considered as the postoperative period. The postoperative infection rate by hospital defines the quality of treatment and medical service being provided in the hospital. The below postoperative infection rate calculator works based on the number of infections and number of surgical operations.
Calculate the Postoperative infection rate for total number of surgical operations as 20 and number of infections in clean surgical cases as 17.
Postoperative Infection Rate = ( 17 / 20 )×100
= 85%
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